My favorite thing about science

One of my favorite movies is about the space race and opens with my personal hero Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier.

Two nuclear bombs at been set off recently and the German's created the first jet planes. But every engineer in the world thought that flying faster than 744 miles an hour was impossible and would rip the face off anyone who tried it.

Chuck and his wife were getting pretty romantic by racing horses in the dark. Chuck fell and broke a couple ribs. He got up before dawn and went to a doctor two hours away so he could come back to base and ride the plane that killed healthier men than him

The first man to break the sound barrier was so hungover he was probably still drunk and was unable to physically close the hatch on his aircraft. He got a buddy to hook him up and while physically unable to do the job, told my engineers he would die just for trying it, and having watched a few friends die trying he became the first man to break the sound barrier.....and the reason he managed to do all of that was that he literally couldn't imagine that his balls weren't big enough to accomplish anything he put his mind to

And thirty seconds later the government made what he did top secret. And when the Appolo program began and he was ten times better than Neil Armstrong NASA told him he didn't qualify because he didn't go to college.
Science is always certain about what can and can't be done but it is always based on what has been seen before. Until some crazy bastard just goes and does something new